I ran across an interesting Louisiana Purchase piece medal minted by the Paris Mint. It was intriguing enough that I had to pick it up. I am doing a little research on it, but I promised @coinsarefun that I would post it.
As a noob trying to navigate the PCGS and others sites, I'm not sure that I am getting the best results with my queries. Eternal thanks to anyone who can assist with more information on this one.
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. 1904 Lousiana Purchase Expo, MO H-30-270, Head of Ceres, Paris Mint
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@ZoidMeister said:
I've been turning over more rocks for Pan-American pieces.
I ran across this one last week. In my thinking, it is a "So-Called Nickel" coming in at just 21mm. But it sure packs a lot of design acumen into a nickel sized package.
Thought I would share.
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1901 NY L-TM22 H.A. Meldrum Co. Pan-American Expo advertising token
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I gots me one too…..with a clip thanks to @seanq
@ZoidMeister said:
I ran across an interesting Louisiana Purchase piece medal minted by the Paris Mint. It was intriguing enough that I had to pick it up. I am doing a little research on it, but I promised @coinsarefun that I would post it.
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1904 Lousiana Purchase Expo, MO H-30-270, Head of Ceres, Paris Mint
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Never seen nor heard about this one but I like it.
The Ceres head obverse was used on a 1900 Paris Exposition medal of the same size before it was recycled for use on the 1904 LPE medal. The Paris Mint struck two medals for the LPE, the Ceres head and a larger 2" higher relief piece featuring an allegorical group of four women on the obverse. Eric Newman must have run into an unsold group of the 2" medals as there were a large number of five piece ATS slabbed lots offered when Heritage sold Newman's holdings -- I bought five lots (25 pcs) myself that went away quickly.
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I didn’t know this farm was in south Pasadena back then but then again it would be
a logical place as it would be easily accessed from downtown.
I love the ostrich design!
I used to go to Yucaipa every year to get our thanksgiving turkey and they had a bunch
of ostrich’s roaming around. Yucaipa is about 30 miles east of downtown,
@SiriusBlack said: @1northcoin How interesting! Some of the images I recognize as being the same images I have in my collection. Makes sense if they were all from the same official photographers!
Thanks. Here is a postcard made from handmade paper in Japan which was originally acquired from the Pan-Pac Expo's Japanese Pavilion.
The Japanese Pavilion's Buddha was an exact reproduction of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, and as noted on the caption this was the first time it had been replicated outside of the Orient.
@SiriusBlack said: @1northcoin How interesting! Some of the images I recognize as being the same images I have in my collection. Makes sense if they were all from the same official photographers!
Thanks. Here is a postcard made from handmade paper in Japan which was originally acquired from the Pan-Pac Expo's Japanese Pavilion.
The Japanese Pavilion's Buddha was an exact reproduction of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, and as noted on the caption this was the first time it had been replicated outside of the Orient.
And here is my photo of The Great Buddha of Kamakura as it can still be seen today in Kamakura, Japan - an hour or so by train from Tokyo.
@SiriusBlack said: @1northcoin How interesting! Some of the images I recognize as being the same images I have in my collection. Makes sense if they were all from the same official photographers!
Thanks. Here is a postcard made from handmade paper in Japan which was originally acquired from the Pan-Pac Expo's Japanese Pavilion.
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Do you have that postcard? It’s so cool as I’m a very tactile person and would want to touch and rub. It
My hubby gets aggravated with me when we go clothes shopping cause I feel all the materials before even trying it on….lol
@SiriusBlack said: @1northcoin How interesting! Some of the images I recognize as being the same images I have in my collection. Makes sense if they were all from the same official photographers!
Thanks. Here is a postcard made from handmade paper in Japan which was originally acquired from the Pan-Pac Expo's Japanese Pavilion.
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Do you have that postcard? It’s so cool as I’m a very tactile person and would want to touch and rub. It
My hubby gets aggravated with me when we go clothes shopping cause I feel all the materials before even trying it on….lol
Yes, and it is cool to touch.
Years ago when I was in Kanazawa, Japan I actually had the opportunity to visit a family who made the highly prized handmade paper. At least at that time it was a cottage industry and their place was along a clear water stream that supplied the water necessary for the process. I recall the sheets of drying paper hanging from what appeared to be clothes lines in their yard.
Looks like the top one is “W H” and the bottom is “B A I” but I have no idea what order they’d be in. There wasn’t a standard of how to do initials, it was kind of up to the engraver I believe. I have a nice pocket watch from the 1870’s that’s similarly engraved and even the Spencerian handwriting group on Facebook couldn’t come to an agreement on the specific letters or order for me.
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
Looks like the top one is “W H” and the bottom is “B A I” but I have no idea what order they’d be in. There wasn’t a standard of how to do initials, it was kind of up to the engraver I believe. I have a nice pocket watch from the 1970’s that’s similarly engraved and even the Spencerian handwriting group on Facebook couldn’t come to an agreement on the specific letters or order for me.
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The bracelet would have been very special to someone back in 1904. The cost had to have been north of 8 dollars.which was over a weeks salary back then.
Years ago when I was in Kanazawa, Japan I actually had the opportunity to visit a family who made the highly prized handmade paper. At least at that time it was a cottage industry and their place was along a clear water stream that supplied the water necessary for the process. I recall the sheets of drying paper hanging from what appeared to be clothes lines in their yard.
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Rulau's entry n his Standard Catalog of Unites States Tokens, 3rd Edition, can leave one scratching their head over this medal.
It clearly looks like a Pan-American Exposition medal from what is commonly thought of as it's obverse. The Pan-American Exposition was held in Buffalo, NY in 1901. The U.S. Cream Separator was clearly a Gold Medal winner at this expo, but this medal is listed in Rulau's catalog under the section Gay Nineties - Vermont.
The "reverse" however, bears a date one year earlier than the Pan-Am Expo - 1900. The imagery and legends on the reverse are from the International World's Fair held in Paris one year earlier. It is this side of the medal where one can understand why Rulau listed this as a Vermont piece. It's creator, the Vermont Farm Machinery Company from Bellows Falls is located in Vermont. The U.S. Cream Separator was a Gold Medal winner at the 1900 Paris exposition as well.
There are multiple die pairs for this medal, only one of which Rulau images in his catalog. The example in his book has the date 1901 above the head of the Buffalo on the Pan-American side of this medal (as seen below). My example does not have this date.
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A different version is missing the date 1900 on the obverse as seen below.
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And a final version has dates on both sides of the medal.
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Most of these that I have seen have been "holed." I am happy to have found one unholed.
A member of another forum I haunt just alerted me to the existence of an online copy of the Official Guide Book from the 1933 Chicago's Century of Progress International Exposition.
I found this to be an amazing resource as it has information on the fairgrounds, the exhibitors, and it even has a section on the official medal of the fair (pg. #137).
The A&P Carnival is even featured (pg. #105), but alas, no mention of images of the medals they produced.
Once you access the guide book, it's easy to save it to your local PC for quicker reference and browsing
A member of another forum I haunt just alerted me to the existence of an online copy of the Official Guide Book from the 1933 Chicago's Century of Progress International Exposition.
I found this to be an amazing resource as it has information on the fairgrounds, the exhibitors, and it even has a section on the official medal of the fair (pg. #137).
The A&P Carnival is even featured (pg. #105), but alas, no mention of images of the medals they produced.
Once you access the guide book, it's easy to save it to your local PC for quicker reference and browsing
I can finally post something here... A 1982 World's Fair round. It's 999 silver and roughly .97 oz. I got it at a good price with original display box which didn't protect it much so it has a lot of hairlines but you can't see them if you go for the color shot Most of the surviving silver rounds look terrible so I jumped on this one since it was by far the nicest.
The "Official Souvenir" of the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition of 1909. Full size sterling silver souvenir spoon.
Interesting obverse and reverse strike:
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. --Severian the Lame
From the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, 1898. Struck on an 1890 Indian cent. Brandeis owned a famous department store in Omaha. One of the sons, Emil Franklin Brandeis, later died in the Titanic disaster.
@carabonnair said:
From the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, 1898. Struck on an 1890 Indian cent. Brandeis owned a famous department store in Omaha. One of the sons, Emil Franklin Brandeis, later died in the Titanic disaster.
@carabonnair, Thanks for posting this elongated. I wasn’t aware it was rolled at the TME of 1898 and Martin & Dow didn’t associate it with the TME when they catalogued it. I’m curious how you know this?
I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!
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@carabonnair said:
From the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, 1898. Struck on an 1890 Indian cent. Brandeis owned a famous department store in Omaha. One of the sons, Emil Franklin Brandeis, later died in the Titanic disaster.
@carabonnair, Thanks for posting this elongated. I wasn’t aware it was rolled at the TME of 1898 and Martin & Dow didn’t associate it with the TME when they catalogued it. I’m curious how you know this?
It was written on the 2x2 it came in (a lot with 3 other elongateds from PPIE San Francisco and San Diego). So it may be incorrect. Sorry I don't have another reference.
@carabonnair said:
From the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, 1898. Struck on an 1890 Indian cent. Brandeis owned a famous department store in Omaha. One of the sons, Emil Franklin Brandeis, later died in the Titanic disaster.
@carabonnair, Thanks for posting this elongated. I wasn’t aware it was rolled at the TME of 1898 and Martin & Dow didn’t associate it with the TME when they catalogued it. I’m curious how you know this?
It was written on the 2x2 it came in (a lot with 3 other elongateds from PPIE San Francisco and San Diego). So it may be incorrect. Sorry I don't have another reference.
Thanks for the reply … I was just wondering if there was some info I was not aware of. My example is rolled on a 1883 IHC. I suppose it’s possible this variety was rolled at the TME of 1898 but I’ve never seen any definitive proof. It’s interesting to ponder.
I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!
ANA LM
USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
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I ran across an interesting Louisiana Purchase piece medal minted by the Paris Mint. It was intriguing enough that I had to pick it up. I am doing a little research on it, but I promised @coinsarefun that I would post it.
As a noob trying to navigate the PCGS and others sites, I'm not sure that I am getting the best results with my queries. Eternal thanks to anyone who can assist with more information on this one.
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1904 Lousiana Purchase Expo, MO H-30-270, Head of Ceres, Paris Mint
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Busy chasing Carr's . . . . . woof!
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I gots me one too…..with a clip thanks to @seanq
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
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Never seen nor heard about this one but I like it.
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
The Ceres head obverse was used on a 1900 Paris Exposition medal of the same size before it was recycled for use on the 1904 LPE medal. The Paris Mint struck two medals for the LPE, the Ceres head and a larger 2" higher relief piece featuring an allegorical group of four women on the obverse. Eric Newman must have run into an unsold group of the 2" medals as there were a large number of five piece ATS slabbed lots offered when Heritage sold Newman's holdings -- I bought five lots (25 pcs) myself that went away quickly.
From the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
Great Cawston Ostrich Farm medal @Stella!
It's nice that it's made by Robbins of Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Here's some info and a photo from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawston_Ostrich_Farm
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I didn’t know this farm was in south Pasadena back then but then again it would be
a logical place as it would be easily accessed from downtown.
I love the ostrich design!
I used to go to Yucaipa every year to get our thanksgiving turkey and they had a bunch
of ostrich’s roaming around. Yucaipa is about 30 miles east of downtown,
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
That is cool, @coinsarefun . Thanks for sharing!
Just realized that I had these old pics in my phone.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Thanks. Here is a postcard made from handmade paper in Japan which was originally acquired from the Pan-Pac Expo's Japanese Pavilion.
The Japanese Pavilion's Buddha was an exact reproduction of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, and as noted on the caption this was the first time it had been replicated outside of the Orient.
And here is my photo of The Great Buddha of Kamakura as it can still be seen today in Kamakura, Japan - an hour or so by train from Tokyo.
This is a nice little piece made up around the 1904 fair for some lucky lady. I can't read the tokens initials.
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Do you have that postcard? It’s so cool as I’m a very tactile person and would want to touch and rub. It
My hubby gets aggravated with me when we go clothes shopping cause I feel all the materials before even trying it on….lol
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
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Wow, the pops for these are a tad rarer now……lol super cool piece.
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Yes, and it is cool to touch.
Years ago when I was in Kanazawa, Japan I actually had the opportunity to visit a family who made the highly prized handmade paper. At least at that time it was a cottage industry and their place was along a clear water stream that supplied the water necessary for the process. I recall the sheets of drying paper hanging from what appeared to be clothes lines in their yard.
Those are awesome! @1northcoin
@1946Hamm
Looks like the top one is “W H” and the bottom is “B A I” but I have no idea what order they’d be in. There wasn’t a standard of how to do initials, it was kind of up to the engraver I believe. I have a nice pocket watch from the 1870’s that’s similarly engraved and even the Spencerian handwriting group on Facebook couldn’t come to an agreement on the specific letters or order for me.
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
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The bracelet would have been very special to someone back in 1904. The cost had to have been north of 8 dollars.which was over a weeks salary back then.
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That's just so very cool!!
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
U.S. Cream Separator
Bellows Falls, Vt.
Rulau VT Blf2
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Rulau's entry n his Standard Catalog of Unites States Tokens, 3rd Edition, can leave one scratching their head over this medal.
It clearly looks like a Pan-American Exposition medal from what is commonly thought of as it's obverse. The Pan-American Exposition was held in Buffalo, NY in 1901. The U.S. Cream Separator was clearly a Gold Medal winner at this expo, but this medal is listed in Rulau's catalog under the section Gay Nineties - Vermont.
The "reverse" however, bears a date one year earlier than the Pan-Am Expo - 1900. The imagery and legends on the reverse are from the International World's Fair held in Paris one year earlier. It is this side of the medal where one can understand why Rulau listed this as a Vermont piece. It's creator, the Vermont Farm Machinery Company from Bellows Falls is located in Vermont. The U.S. Cream Separator was a Gold Medal winner at the 1900 Paris exposition as well.
There are multiple die pairs for this medal, only one of which Rulau images in his catalog. The example in his book has the date 1901 above the head of the Buffalo on the Pan-American side of this medal (as seen below). My example does not have this date.
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A different version is missing the date 1900 on the obverse as seen below.
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And a final version has dates on both sides of the medal.
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Most of these that I have seen have been "holed." I am happy to have found one unholed.
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Links to TokenCatelog.com where the additional images were taken follow.
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=448703&inventory_id=651413&td_image_id=464207&attribution_id=461266
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=455734&inventory_id=483996&td_image_id=311187&attribution_id=468587&record_offset=0
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=615826
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Steph / @coinsarefun ,
A member of another forum I haunt just alerted me to the existence of an online copy of the Official Guide Book from the 1933 Chicago's Century of Progress International Exposition.
I found this to be an amazing resource as it has information on the fairgrounds, the exhibitors, and it even has a section on the official medal of the fair (pg. #137).
The A&P Carnival is even featured (pg. #105), but alas, no mention of images of the medals they produced.
Once you access the guide book, it's easy to save it to your local PC for quicker reference and browsing
I hope this link works for you . . . . .
Enjoy.
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http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/Official guide book of the fair Chicago, 1933.pdf
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The Guide Book Cover
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The Table of Contents
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A recent arrival. These seem to be very difficult to find with clean, unmolested fields . . . . .
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I think this one qualifies. From the Century of Progress, 1933 Chicago?
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I've got to clean those slabs better before I take photos.
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I'm totally digging the rugged look of this piece - die cracks and all.
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It's all about what the people want...
I think I own the Willie Wonka of entrance golden tickets!
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I just saw this now…..thanks. I’ll look through it later.
There are 2 A&P carnival pig medals. Both are pretty cool looking.
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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I can finally post something here... A 1982 World's Fair round. It's 999 silver and roughly .97 oz. I got it at a good price with original display box which didn't protect it much so it has a lot of hairlines but you can't see them if you go for the color shot
Most of the surviving silver rounds look terrible so I jumped on this one since it was by far the nicest.
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Just got this one for my transportation token set. It’s also the year my mother was born.
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
The "Official Souvenir" of the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition of 1909. Full size sterling silver souvenir spoon.
Interesting obverse and reverse strike:
--Severian the Lame
From the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, 1898. Struck on an 1890 Indian cent. Brandeis owned a famous department store in Omaha. One of the sons, Emil Franklin Brandeis, later died in the Titanic disaster.
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
I have this one from the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. It's a little beat up.
@carabonnair, Thanks for posting this elongated. I wasn’t aware it was rolled at the TME of 1898 and Martin & Dow didn’t associate it with the TME when they catalogued it. I’m curious how you know this?
ANA LM
USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
It was written on the 2x2 it came in (a lot with 3 other elongateds from PPIE San Francisco and San Diego). So it may be incorrect. Sorry I don't have another reference.
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Thanks for the reply … I was just wondering if there was some info I was not aware of. My example is rolled on a 1883 IHC. I suppose it’s possible this variety was rolled at the TME of 1898 but I’ve never seen any definitive proof. It’s interesting to ponder.
ANA LM
USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
Busy chasing Carr's . . . . . woof!
Successful BST transactions with: Bullsitter, Downtown1974, P0CKETCHANGE, Twobitcollector, AKbeez, DCW, Illini420, ProofCollection, DCarr, Cazkaboom, RichieURich, LukeMarshall, carew4me, BustDMs, coinsarefun, PreTurb, felinfoal, jwitten, GoldenEgg, pruebas, lazybones, COCollector, CuKevin, MWallace, USMC_6115, NamVet69, zippcity, . . . . who'd I forget?